Trace, No. 57 (Summer 1965)

Journal Issue

No Brake Signals by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 57 its clearest point of entry, while Neoteric Verbalizings Run On by James Boyer May and Bierce to Miller widen the issue’s field. Dated Summer 1965, this substantial number indexes 38 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.

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Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 57
Issue date: Summer 1965
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 108 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 115 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-57-1965

Full contents

No Brake Signals — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 5]
Neoteric Verbalizings Run On — James Boyer May [Contribution, p. 5]
Bierce to Miller [Contribution, p. 7]
The New Poetics or Who Shot Tennyson’s Eagle? — William E. Taylor [Contribution, p. 16]
Wild Western Again — John Tagliabue [Poem, p. 24]
Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 25]
Another Advocate of Revolt — Sam Bluefarb [Correspondence, p. 27]
A Bohemian Recants — JeanneS. Bagby [Correspondence, p. 29]
New Friends of the Fourteenth Amendment — Ellen Field [Correspondence, p. 31]
‘ Gems ‘ Out of Hat in Padded Drunk Cell? — Katherine Gorman [Correspondence, p. 31]
A Lermontov Reader [Contribution, p. 34]
Rebellion for Humanity’s Sake — Mary Graham Lund [Essay, p. 38]
The Androgynous Poet — David Lee Pagari [Essay, p. 43]
Sophistic Sorcery — Theodore Kitaif [Essay, p. 48]
Of Things Past [Contribution, p. 51]
Rilke’s Eleventh Dream — Miguel González-Gerth [Contribution, p. 52]
The Eleventh Dream — Rainer Maria Rilke [Poem, p. 53]
An Arrangement of Translations (from the Greek and the Latin) [Contribution, p. 54]
Exile’s Song — Michael Lebeck [Contribution, p. 58]
Iii Opinions — Michael Lebeck [Contribution, p. 60]
2 — Michael Lebeck [Contribution, p. 61]
3 [Contribution, p. 62]
At Night Above All — Guy Renè Cadou [Poem, p. 65]
Automobile Accident at Brush Creek and Paseo: A Transvaluation of Death — J. Michael Yates [Contribution, p. 77]
The Opening Room — A. Fredric Franklyn [Poem, p. 82]
The Messenger — Ed Bullins [Poem, p. 86]
(from a novel in progress: Absurd) — Ed Bullins [Contribution, p. 86]
Ed Bullins [Contribution, p. 89]
— before the sun sets — — William Abbott [Poem, p. 91]
The Dangers of Electricity — Christopher Perret [Contribution, p. 96]
Schizophrenia on Madison Ave — Charles J. Shagoury [Contribution, p. 99]
The Poet’s Wife — Joyce Odam [Contribution, p. 101]
An Underground Cinema Primer (part 1) — Carl Linder [Essay, p. 102]
O. W. Crane: Romantic Protester? — Carl Larsen [Review, p. 106]
Relativity Problem [Contribution, p. 112]
Solved [Contribution, p. 112]
The Chronicle [Reference, p. 113]
Graphics [Contribution, p. 114]

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